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Richard Hill: Short Biography

Richard Hill of Houston, Texas is on a path toward enlightenment. His is a personal quest to overcome overwhelming obstacles in order to achieve a personal vision of spirituality that transcends current religious and political systems.

Now, we truly live in a global economy and government must evolve past its current “fascist” state (a corporate strangle hold over the governing body) to embrace a truly “planetary” style of government. Richard Hill conceives of a Plato-like “philosopher king” who now should “rule” – with great wisdom and compassion -- the entire planet Earth.

Somewhat “tongue in cheek,” Hill nominates himself for the job. Or, as he says: “Why not me?” Hill claims that he is as much God as Christ. In this book we tell Hill’s story and pose the question, “Why not Richard Hill for King of the Planet?”

Richard Hill was born on August 22, 1942 in Ft. Worth, Texas at 2:41 PM Central Wartime (CWT). He attended elementary school and began high school in Ft. Worth, but moved to Houston, Texas in 1958. There, he attended and graduated from Lamar High School in 1960 where he was a straight A student and a National Merit Scholarship finalist.

From 1960 to 1964, he attended Harvard College as an undergraduate majoring in economics. Following graduation, he served for three years in the United States Marine Corps, rising to the rank of Captain during a one year tour of duty in Vietnam (March 1966- March 1967). He was an Air Intelligence Officer, but saw no combat. Following his honorable discharge, he was accepted to Harvard Law School from where he graduated in 1972.

He then accepted a position with Baker Botts, a large corporate law firm in Houston, Texas. He left within six months, deciding that he did not wish to become a corporate lawyer. He then worked for a year in Ft. Worth as a business manager for Meeker investments. There a precipitating disagreement with his employer, lead to his leaving and the beginning of a long spiritual journey that included an aborted bid to become President of the United States, a failed marriage and hospitalization for mental instability 21 different times. During his 6 year stay in John Howard Pavilion at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Washington, D.C., he began to discover a new self identity and spiritual awareness.

Hill’s quest has lead him to a point where he now believes that what is most needed today - in a world divided by political and religious unrest – is a Plato-like King of the Planet, a position that he has nominated himself for and to which he devotes all his time, energy and thinking. His first order of business is a world wide disarmament conference.